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18th Century Material Culture

Wagons & Trucks

Wagons

THE GROUNDS
London 1741
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Hay Wagon Passing a Ruined Abbey


by John Wootton c. 1745
(Yale Center for British Art)

Van Bergen Overmantel


Attributed to John Heaten (Active 1730 - 1750) of Leeds, New York c. 1730 - 1745
(New York Historical Association)

Delft Tile
18th Century
(Boerenwagens.nl)

Frontispiece
from Plain Truth: Or, Serious Considerations On the Present State of the City of Philadelphia, and Province of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia 1747)

Covent Garden Piazza and Market, London


by John Collet c. 1761 - 1780
(Museum of London)

DESCRIPTIONS....
by James Sharp of Leadenhall Street, London 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Rolling Carts and Waggons.


by James Sharp of Leadenhall Street, London 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

A Representation of a Coal Waggon.


Possibly from The Gentlemans Magazine or Universal Museum 1764
(Pastpages.co.uk)

A New Invented Waggon


1764
(Pastpages.co.uk)

A New Invented Waggon


1764
(Pastpages.co.uk)

A New Invented Waggon


1764
(Pastpages.co.uk)

Advertisement: James Sharp of London


1773
(Science Museum Pictorial / Science & Society Picture Library)

Provision for the Camp &c. in Hyde Park 1780


by Paul Sandby
(The British Museum)

by Thomas Gainsborough c. 1785


(The British Museum)

THE LOOKING GLASS for 1787


by Amos Doolittle 1787
(Library of Congress)

Dutch Farm Wagon on Tile


c. 1790

Recreated Carriers Wagon


(The Deane Shop - Colonial Williamsburg)

Detail from The Battle of Germantown 1777


by Xavier Della Gatta 1782
(Museum of the American Revolution)

Possible Provenance - Richard St. George Mansergh During the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777

A Covered Wagon marked B.R, York Waggon


A Harlots Progress by William Hogarth c. 1732
Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A Covered Wagon marked B.R, York Waggon


A Harlots Progress by William Hogarth c. 1732
(Grosvenro Prints)

Covered Wagon with Mules, a Horse, and Dog


by Samuel Scott (1702 - 1772)
(Tate)

Covered Wagon: The Gypsy and the Fortune Teller


Paul Sandby c. 1758
(Yale Center for British Art)

(Restored) Coman Family Wagon Built in Winchester, Virginia


c. 1769 - 1788
(Greenbrier Historical Sociery)

A Carriers Wagon
by Thomas Rowlandson c. 1785
(Yale Center for British Art)

Recreated Conestoga Wagon


(Fort Ligonier - Jymm Homan Photograph)

Stage Wagon: An OFFICER of the LIGHT INFANTRY driven by his LADY to COX - HEATH
by Carington Bowles 1778
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Stage Wagon: An OFFICER of the LIGHT INFANTRY driven by his LADY to COX - HEATH
by Carington Bowles 1778
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Stage Wagon: An Ocer in the LIGHT INFANTRY, driven by his LADY to CAMP.
Likely Carington Bowles 1778

A Tented Wagon
by Paul Sandby

A Tented Wagon
by Paul Sandby
(The Royal Collection)

A Tented Wagon
by Paul Sandby
(The Royal Collection)

Trucks

Truck Moving a Tree Stump


by Paul Sandby c. 1760s
(The British Museum)

Hoisting Cast Iron onto a Truck Carriage


by William Henry Pyne c. 1769 - 1803
(Yale Center for British Art)

Broadside - Popes Night in Boston


Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768

Broadside - Popes Night in Boston


Sold by the Printers Boys in Boston 1768

Drays

A Dray: The Henry VIII Gateway at Winsor


by Paul Sandby

A Dray: The Henry VIII Gateway at Winsor


by Paul Sandby

A Boat on a Wagon
by James Gillray
(The British Museum)

For a Lack of a Better


Term..... Hybrids

A LESSON WESTWARD, Or, a MORNING VISIT to BETSY COLE


by Carington Bowles 1782
(The British Museum)

A LESSON WESTWARD, Or, a MORNING VISIT to BETSY COLE


by Carington Bowles 1782
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Acknowledgements

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While others have also contributed material, we are indebted to Andrew De Lisle, Jymm
Homan, Steven Rayner, and John U. Rees for their assistance in putting together this
presentation.
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